Tag: St Peter's Dunboyne
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Don’t Panic! Corporal Jones promoted to Captain!
“Permission to speak, Sir?” was how the excitable Lance Corporal Jack Jones would prevail on the often mithered Captain Mainwaring to allow him go off on one of his meandering rambles, urging calm by imploring all and sundry to “Don’t Panic”! even though he was doing the polar opposite of his own advice himself. If…
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Regional Championships ready for the off
The Brady’s Skoda sponsored Regional Football Championships are set to thrown in next midweek and anticipation of their second staging is growing with team managements and fixtures confirmed. In a change from last year’s arrangements when all matches in the Regional Championships took place in Dunganny, this time they will actually live up to their…
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Enjoy it – it takes longer than you think
Repetition is one of the greatest foibles in this business. Balancing such worries, though, is the reality that, if a point retains credence, it’s worth ploughing up again. Now read on… Again, we return to the task of tending to some of da’s stuff. Specifically, a few GAA photos – including the one of the…
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Selections for Punchestown – Oct. 10th 2023
1.50: WODHOOH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.25: CONTRAPOSTO – EW – (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/DICK DONOHOE) 3.00: ZANAHIYR (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.35: ANTRIM COAST (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.10: BOWGATE STREET – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/TOM GIBNEY) 4.45: GETAWAY CHARLIE – EW – (DAVID DOYLE (7)/TIM DOYLE) 5.20: GLOBAL BRIEF (PAT TAAFFE (7)/NOEL MEADE)
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Holders still standing with one hurdle to go
Dunboyne…3-14 Seneschalstown…1-06 Having just been a solitary point to the good at half time, Joe Breen Cup holders Dunboyne turned in an exceptional second half effort in this re-fixed Ladies SFC semi final in Ashbourne on Tuesday night. The Yellow Furze outfit were actually much the quicker into their stride and constructed a five point…
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Frustrated relief
Dunboyne…4-15 Moynalvey…0-10 Chances are yours truly wasn’t the only one in these parts – or Moynalvey – in absolutely no mood for football on Friday night. How could either place be, with the heart and soul having been ripped out of both communities when Damien O’Reilly was taken from us long, long before his time,…
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Sideline Cuts – 29
SLEEPING GIANTS AWAKEN For very poignant reasons, on several occasions this year, the All Ireland winning Meath team of 1967 were brought to mind. This time round however, their mention is in a brighter context. Now read on… Peter McDermott’s team way back then were – unthinkable as it might seem now – backboned by…
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An epic and equally upsetting weekend
If anybody has become bored or annoyed by my re-posting match text commentary in recent weeks I apologise. It’s my way of dealing with Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) and/or separation anxiety, whichever you want to call it. From not being able to attend matches it is desired to be at. Without wanting to play…
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What is the past and will soon become the past gone in the space of a day
Again, I find myself referring to Ireland’s greatest man of letters, Con Houlihan. Apologies if mention of the man who – as he put it himself – was born in a blizzard in December 1925 – has become a bit laboursome. It will be contended, though, that if a point retains credence, it warrants repetition.…
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Accurate Aoife leaves glass half full for resolute Royals
Meath…2-06 Derry…1-09 Aoife Minogue cut a dejected figure as the full time whistle sounded in this thrilling All Ireland Intermediate Camogie Final at Croke Park. But she was being hard on herself by doing so. Her point attempt in the last minute – from a free on the sideline on the Hogan Stand side of…